Alicja Kowalczyk, a Polish immigrant to the Pacific Northwest in the year 2005. brother died during his compulsive military service in 1995 under extremely mysterious circumstances, only some of which she is privy to. because of this, she is A: keenly aware of the existence of the bizarre and supernatural, and B: a conspiracy kook. she also wears his old military fatigues basically everywhere she goes, partially as a coping mechanism and partially just because they're damn fine clothes.

Alicja moved to the United States in 1999 to pursue a higher education and a career in the (at the time) booming tech sector. rode high for about a year before losing everything when the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, when the company she worked as the chief technical officer at imploded spectacularly after investors pulled out. she insists that the company could have survived this very day if the CEO hadn't embezzled so much cash up his nose.

currently, when she's not on some hacker or paranormal shit, she now works with her friend and roommate, Mateo Escareno, running a small web/software development and technical consultation contracting company called Sauvie Computing Services. it pays the bills, and finances her real passions - computer hacking and paranormal research. they both live in a run-down but cozy bungalow in/on Sauvie Island, Oregon. both are open homosexuals.

If you find bugs in cohost, @staff have requested that you email them directly instead of sharing widely on the platform.

Since the dev team is small and the service is under stress, and the community seems to actually like it here, the best thing to do is honor that request. Of course there are times to make bugs public, but it shouldn't be the first thing that is done in the majority of situations.

Giving potentially malicious users new ways to harm the community isn't something that should be encouraged.

Please email @staff if you have found ways around the recent fixed position CSS fix.